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    Burning out, no really... David75's Avatar
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    Mininova Fails...

    Just have a look at their site, you'll understand they limited themselves to copyright free torrents... or ones directly given by the authors.

    There are other sources of course, but another big one fails.

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    More like "mininova falls". They got sued in Dutch courts or something like that. I thought they were small enough to escape notice, but it turns out they were one of the major sites.

    Torrents really are getting out of hand and this is one way the entertainment industries can slow them.


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    lol public trackers...
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    I was vaguely wondering why I can barely find anything on mininova.com anymore. Alas, there is torrentz!

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    Yes they are, but they still say they're coming back

    Torrentz is a dark and dangerous place... i'll stick with pirate ebay

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    This is sad news indeed... Mininova was my goto site for things, and I don't have another since I rarely dl stuff anymore. I ran over there monday when nobody had posted this weeks FMA or Inuyasha links...

    "Music"
    "Other Torrents"

    f''ng weak.

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    Mininova was a small site?
    it was rather one of biggest torrent sites!
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    Anyone try this site out?

    http://www.torrentpond.com

    It kind of links a bunch of torrent sites in one place.

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    Kickasstorrents is pretty good too.

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    If Nyaatorrents falls, then I'll be angry and worried. I hadn't visited Mininova for a while anyway so this isn't such a blow for me. Isohunt would be another very bad loss.

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    OMFG I used to get norton diskeeper cleaner and other window softwares for free!! Now I have to use isohunt, other than that if they start cracking on torrented sites......... than damn. I already see it "$5 for 2 torrents".
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    I only need shit from a torrent .01 % of the time. I am sure if you looked/tried you could find what you're looking for on irc/ddl without having to go to torrents. But most people don't want to put in the effort.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arcness
    I only need shit from a torrent .01 % of the time. I am sure if you looked/tried you could find what you're looking for on irc/ddl without having to go to torrents. But most people don't want to put in the effort.
    There's the effort
    There's the speed, torrent is most of the time faster (except for old material?)
    I didn't find a good xdcc client that would manage my dl lists, because you most of the time
    only have one thread by channel? and it happens that series aren't batched...

    but should they hammer the easy road, I'll be able to switch to the less easy ones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arcness
    I only need shit from a torrent .01 % of the time. I am sure if you looked/tried you could find what you're looking for on irc/ddl without having to go to torrents. But most people don't want to put in the effort.
    I would agree for anime, but I have a harder time finding tv-rips and movies on irc.

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    I bought a life time membership with megaupload a long time ago so i usually just use that for downloading movies/tv-show.

    Getting 600 kb with a public torrent tracker is a once in a blue moon kinda thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Dragon
    I bought a life time membership with megaupload
    How much does that cost?

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    200 bucks

    What i do is pay 15$ for a 3 months account and share it with a friend, my friend then, pays 15$ for the next 3 months and so on, doesnt seems like megaupload penalize account sharing.
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    The Dark Dragon. Dark Dragon's Avatar
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    That's what i do too kinda. My friend and I split to buy this account a while back and we both share it with our family too. Never got any complaint from Megaupload.

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    Megaupload has always looked kinda shady to me, but I do admit that it seems really convenient when you can share an acct with someone..!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sapphire
    Megaupload has always looked kinda shady to me, but I do admit that it seems really convenient when you can share an acct with someone..!
    They do have an 18+ counterpart, but I'm guessing you meant shady in a different way. (like money scamming or something, or spyware).

    The lifetime membership deal is alright for the money I guess. It would come in handy, but I don't use DDL enough to justify the purchase.

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